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“... this up by examining the remarkable letters written by Mrs Thrale, the Elizabeth Montagu set, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the Duchess of Devonshire or Lady Elizabeth Foster; the Duchess’s novel Sylph is not treated, either. In the second half of the book, ‘Literary Achievements’, we are on firmer ground: but here the first seven chapters concern novels ...”

“... symptom of it is how secretly equable the novel is about its failure to ‘realise’ Henry and Mary Crawford. Following Lionel Trilling, Tanner makes a great deal out of the brother and sister as actors, always looking for a part, a role in life symbolised by the theatricals which occupy the centre of the book’s realisation of Mansfield itself. But Jane ...”